paragraph below: In Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan I notice that harmonicas appear to be a very important part of the story because harmonicas have been mentioned many times. The story starts with Otto, who has a book about someone of his name sake and a harmonica. He gets lost in the woods and meets three women, the same in his book. They urge him to play harmonica, and he fell asleep right after. He woke up and people called his stories of the sisters crazy. After that we come to Friedrich, who is boy who enjoys music, but gets bullied in school. His father decides to homeschool him, so he goes to a factory to get taught. It just so happens that this factory is a harmonica factory. The harmonica was first mentioned in the beginning, fifty years before …show more content…
The first reference was the title of the book Otto had, which was most likely a story about it him, called, The Thirteenth Harmonica Of Otto the Messenger. Then when the sisters came together in the woods they asked him to play harmonica and Otto fell asleep without the book or the harmonica. During his conversation with sisters the text said. “Otto whimpered, ‘But it's only a harmonica.’ ‘Oh, it is much more!” said Eins. ‘When you play it, you breathe in and out, just as you would to keep your body alive. Have you ever considered that one person might play the mouth harp, and pass along her strength and vision, and knowledge?’”(Pg 23) Then during The in the 1930s Friedrich, who was extremely interested in music, knew how to play harmonica, and worked at a harmonica factory. Then he went and found a harmonica in a graveyard that sounded like three instruments at once. In the text it says “The harmonica had a rich ethereal quality quality- the asme alluring sound he’d heard earlier in the graveyard room. The more he played, the more the air around him seemed to pulse with energy. He felt protected by the cloak of music, as if nothing could stand in his way.” (Pg 76) Another similar quote is “‘Such a remarkable tone/ It;s as if you are playing three instruments not